• Cognitive Content and Communication
    Dissertation, University of Michigan. 2004.
    The concept of common ground---a set of propositions common to speaker and hearer that is presupposed in conversation---is fundamental to most treatments of communication. However, relatively little work has been done on the contribution of indexical and demonstrative utterances to common ground. Because the beliefs expressed by these utterances seem to be inherently perspectival, it is not clear whether or in what we sense we should think of these utterances as generating "mutual" beliefs. Yet …Read more